Access File Facilities

Accessing Auxiliary Storage: FILE › The FILE Transaction and Menus › Access File Facilities

Access File Facilities

Use the following methods to access the File facilities of CA InterTest for CICS.

From CICS, enter the transaction code FILE.
From the Primary Option Menu, select Option 4 Auxiliary Storage.
From any Source Listing display, breakpoint, or CORE display, enter FILE on the command line.

The following Auxiliary Storage Menu opens.

--------------CA InterTest r8.5 AUXILIARY STORAGE MENU---------------------- OPTION ===> 1 Select an auxiliary storage type, specifying optional criteria below. 1 Files Display/select files for access 2 DB2 database Invoke DB2 SQL interface facility 3 DL/I database Access DL/I database 4 TD queues Display/select transient data queues for access 5 TS queues Display/select temporary storage queues for access Type specific or generic file/queue name(s): Protsym p*______ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ PF1 Help 2 3 End 4 Return 5 6 PF7 8 9 10 11 12

To use the Auxiliary Storage menu, follow these steps:

Use the Option field to select the auxiliary storage type you want to view.
Optionally, enter one or more specific or generic names on the bottom fields of the menu. Generic names can include the masking characters * and +. Use * to indicate a string of any length, + to indicate a single character.
Press Enter to display a selection list of the files and queues that meet your selection criteria.